A federal judge ruled that a wife of an inmate could sue a reality show for defamation after film taken of her without permission while she was visiting her husband portrayed her smuggling drugs into the Tennessee prison.The narrator for the reality show soon reported that a guard had smuggled the drugs not the wife.
In spite of the vindication, the judge said that the way the show was presented could lead a viewer to conclude that the wife was a drug smuggler who just happened not have been caught on that day. -db
From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, August 4, 2011, by Clara Hogan.